When you merge cells, you 'physically' merge two or more cells into a single cell. In essence, there are two ways to combine data in Excel spreadsheets:
In this tutorial, we are going to explore various techniques of Excel string concatenation so that you can choose the method best suited for your worksheets. Common examples that require concatenation in Excel are joining names and address parts, combining text with a formula-driven value, displaying dates and times in the desired format, to name a few. Often you may want to split the content of one cell into individual cells, or do the opposite - combine data from two or more columns into a single column.
In your Excel workbooks, the data is not always structured according to your needs. In this tutorial, you will learn various ways to concatenate text strings, cells, ranges, columns and rows in Excel using the CONCATENATE function and '&' operator.
